Ray Campbell, JD

Ray Campbell is the President of FAIR Health, a national, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to supply objective, unbiased information for all stakeholders to improve health care quality, access, and affordability. FAIR Health possesses the nation’s largest collection of commercial health care claims data, which grows at a rate of about four billion claim records a year. Certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health also receives data representing the experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B, and D. Ray is a lawyer with extensive experience in public policy, health data, and executive leadership. From 2016 through 2022, Ray was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), an independent regulatory agency with authority to collect data and perform analyses of the Massachusetts health care system to support policymaking, public health, and health care improvement efforts. Prior to CHIA, Ray was a commissioner and the acting executive director of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, the largest self-insured purchaser in the New England commercial health care market. Before that, Ray spent seven years as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a multi-stakeholder nonprofit working on state and federal health care IT, health information exchange, and data interoperability projects with all the major health care stakeholders in Massachusetts. Ray has been an instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he taught the class “Health Data and Public Policy” and ran an executive education program on health equity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics. Ray has also worked as a lawyer in the public and private sectors, as a consultant, and as the executive director of a Massachusetts quasi-public authority that provided internet and distance learning services to K-12 schools, state agencies, and municipalities.